This rating applies only to Nurse Dawn. She was my mother's nurse in the last months of my mother's life. She rarely smiled. There were moments when I felt disdain/disapproval oozing from her towards me. After providing my mother with A LOT of morphine, she did not once follow-up to see how the drug was affecting her existence, except to measure pain. when my mother and I spoke to her about the affect on my mother's mental status (memory went south, unable to concentrate, inability to read, lost weeks of time, in her mind) and whether a reduction in morphine was possible, she was obviously annoyed and my mother asked if Nurse Dawn was angry with her. By the end, I realized that Nurse Dawn is a generally unhappy person. She shouldn't be working in situations where compassion is of the utmost importance.
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